Preparing Students for a Future Yet To Be Invented

Our children face a future of new, more demanding, and increasingly complex problems.

Solving these problems will require agile thinkers with diverse perspectives and life experiences, and an ability to identify and acquire the new, yet unknown knowledge needed to operate and create tomorrow’s technologies and industries. At the same time, our educational system risks growing increasingly out of step with the needs of life and work in the 21st century. Invention education offers a powerful approach to bridge this gap.

The InventEd community is a network of education professionals committed to cultivating the inventive mindset that exists in everyone.

We exist as a platform to share, learn, and build community; we create awareness and communicate invention education’s impact; and we facilitate connections and partnerships to broaden the invention education ecosystem. 

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Voices from the Field

Invention education to me means the inclusivity and accessibility for all students to be able to take transdisciplinary learning into a real-life, problem-solving solution.

Bri Livingood, Director
Carden of Tucson Charter School

By encouraging all students to see themselves as inventors and innovators, we can start raising a generation of change makers, who will solve the challenges of today.

Arlyne Simon, Biomedical Engineer,
Inventor, Author, and Entrepreneur

Through invention education, there’s an opportunity to see exactly how STEM relates to a student as a person, how that relates to their community.

Rudy B. McCormick III, Executive Director
Arizona MESA School
Invention education, and also building an identity exploration into the curriculum, it’s strengths-based, and it’s future-oriented, and it’s optimistic. And that’s what we need in K12 settings.

Joanna Garner, Executive Director
Center for Educational Partnerships, Old Dominion University